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GRB 110530A: Peculiar Broad Bump and Delayed Plateau in Early Optical Afterglows

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena 2016-10-26 v1

Abstract

We report our very early optical observations of GRB 110530A and investigate its jet properties together with its X-ray afterglow data. A peculiar broad onset bump followed by a plateau is observed in its early R band afterglow lightcurve. The optical data in the other bands and the X-ray data are well consistent with the temporal feature of the R band lightcurve. Our joint spectral fits of the optical and X-ray data show that they are in the same regime, with a photon index of 1.70\sim 1.70. The optical and X-ray afterglow lightcurves are well fitted with the standard external shock model by considering a delayed energy injection component. Based on our modeling results, we find that the radiative efficiency of the GRB jet is 1%\sim 1\% and the magnetization parameter of the afterglow jet is <0.04<0.04 with the derived extremely low ϵB\epsilon_B (the fraction of shock energy to magnetic field) of (1.64±0.25)×106(1.64\pm 0.25)\times 10^{-6}. These results indicate that the jet may be matter dominated. Discussion on delayed energy injection from accretion of late fall-back material of its pre-supernova star is also presented.

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@article{arxiv.1607.08454,
  title  = {GRB 110530A: Peculiar Broad Bump and Delayed Plateau in Early Optical Afterglows},
  author = {Shu-Qing Zhong and Li-Ping Xin and En-Wei Liang and Jian-Yan Wei and Yuji Urata and Kui-Yun Huang and Yu-Lei Qiu and Can-Min Deng and Yuan-Zhu Wang and Jin-Song Deng},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1607.08454},
  year   = {2016}
}

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24 pages, 5 figures, 3 tables, accpeted for publication in ApJ